Public Address 12/06/07 - Ready to Fly
Ready to Fly | Jun 12, 2007 10:05
Russell Brown's Hard News
Couldn't Alan Bollard have waited till I went to the bank? In truth, the unusual overnight intervention in our currency
still leaves the dollar as strong against the greenback as at any time I've travelled, and I think it's likely I'll
still find the odd $US-friendly bargain in Ho Ch...
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Sound as the pound | Jun 12, 2007 08:57
David Slack on his own account
Public Address got on the phone yesterday and asked the disgraced World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz if he could shine some
big brain power on the problem of New Zealand's high dollar. The interview began with a little rancour. Wolfowitz. But
it's 3am. Are you insane? Public Address. Sorry about...
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A Bit of a Worry | Jun 12, 2007 00:37
David Haywood from Christchurch
When spending time with my nieces or nephew, I am often frustrated in my attempts to point out interesting or
educational features of the landscape. A typical encounter might go like this: Me: Oh look, a three-legged dog! Niece or
Nephew: [excitedly] Where? Me: Just there, where I'm pointing. Niece...
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Cooked goose, chicken, etc. | Jun 11, 2007 08:51
Keith Ng: The Manchurian Candidate
There's an apt Chinese idiom: ?????. That's: "dead chicken trying to open the rice-pot lid". By that, of course, I meant
Deborah Coddington's ??attempt at preemptive damage control in the Herald on Sunday, in which she wrote about the Press
Council's damning decision, which comes out today. While...
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